14G HANDBOOK OF IKIDEiE. 



37. WiTSENiA Tliunh. 



Perianth with a long fimnel-shaped tul)e and short erect 

 ovate-lanceolate segments, pilose on the outside. Stamens inserted 

 at the throat of the tube; filaments short, flattened; anthers lan- 

 ceolate. Ocarij oblong, crowned by a glandular ring at the base of 

 the long filiform style, which is minutely tricuspidate at the stigma- 

 tose apex. Capsule small, turbniate, coriaceous, loculicidally 3- 

 valved. Seeds few, angular. 



1. W. MAURA Thunb. Diss. Nov. Gen. ii. 34, with figure; Red. 

 Lil. t. 245 and 463 ; Bot. Reg. t. 5 ; Flore des Serres, t. 72 ; Paxt. 

 Mag. viii. 221. W. tomentosa Salisb. Anthohjza niaura Linn. 

 Ixia disticha Lam. — Stems woody, erect, 2-4 ft. long ; branches 

 flattened, closely leaty to the top. Leaves distichous, rigid, ensi- 

 form, i^ ft. loug. Clusters crowded in oblong heads; spathes 1- 

 flowered, 1^ in. long ; valves rigid, acute, outer shorter. Perianth 

 not fugitive ; tube 2 in. long, ^ in. diam. at the throat, brownish 

 towards the base, blue-black towards the top ; segments ^ in. long. 

 Capsule bright brown, | in. long. 



Hab. Cape Colony ; south-western provinces. A most distinct and curious 

 plant. 



38. Klattia Baker. 



Perianth with a short cylindrical tube and very long subequal 

 very narrow unguiculate segments. Stamens inserted at the throat 

 of the tube ; filaments long, free, filiform ; anthers linear. Ovary 

 turbinate, 3-celled ; ovules few in a cell; style long, filiform, 

 minutely tricuspidate at the stigmatose apex. Capsule turbinate, 

 loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds one or few in a cell, angled or 

 compressed. 



1. K. PARTITA Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 109. Witsenia 

 partita Ker. — Stems woody, branched, 1-2 ft. long ; branches 

 flattened, closely leaty to the tip. Leaves rigid, linear, erecto- 

 patent, 6-9 in. loug. Clusters 1-2-flowered, forming dense oblong 

 terminal heads. Spathe-valves rigid, lanceolate, f-1 in. long. 

 Perianth bright blue ; tube ^ in. long ; segments 2-2| in. long, 

 with a lanceolate blade ^ in. long and a long filiform claw. Stamens 

 and style reaching nearly to the tip of the perianth-segments. 

 Capsule ^ in. long. 



Hab. Cape Colony ; south-western provinces. 



39. ScHizosTYLis Backh. et Harv. 



Perianth hypocrateriform, with a cylindrical tube and campanu- 

 late limb with six subequal oblong segments. Stamois inserted at 

 the throat of the tube ; filaments filiform ; anthers linear, basi- 

 fixed. Ovary clavate, 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed ; style 

 subulate, not longer than the perianth-tube; branches long, spread- 

 ing, subulate. Capsule obovoid-oblong, obtuse, loculicidally 3- 



